EXERCISES ON PARALLELISM

#1

         Our beagle loves to hunt.When someone opens the back door for her,she barrels down porch steps into the yard.She runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.Then,her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats,rabbits and other presences which are too subtle for human detection.She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.First,it spins clockwise then counterclockwise.These two activities,sniffing and spinning,always occur together and seem to propel her along.

#2

         Although The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information,few people know about it.Also,it is the official publishing house for the federal government.The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects ranging from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms.About 27,000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents and many of them are inexpensive.There is even no charge at all for some of them.

#3

        John Jacob Astor was the man who remaped America's first fortune.He was a German and made his initial money trading Indian furs.Morever,he was lowborn and uneducated.Also,Astor never learned to speak English properly so he carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.